Can science and technology save China? /edited by Susan Greenhalgh and Li Zhang.
Can science and technology save China? /edited by Susan Greenhalgh and Li Zhang.
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (vii, 226 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : governing through science : the anthropology of science and technology in contemporary China / Numbers and the assembling of a community mental health infrastructure in post-socialist China / Embracing psychological science for the good life? / Negotiating evidence and efficacy in experimental medicine / Divergent trust and dissonant truths in public health science / China's eco-dream and the making of invisibilities in rural-environmental research / The good scientist and the good multinational : managing the ethics of industry-funded science / The black soldier fly : an indigenous innovation for waste management in Guangzhou / Unmasking a gendered materialism : air filtration, cigarettes, and domestic discord in urban China / Susan Greenhalgh -- Zhiying Ma -- Li Zhang -- Priscilla Song -- Katherine Mason -- Elizabeth Lord -- Susan Greenhalgh -- Amy Zhang -- Matthew Kohrman.
"This study of the intimate connections between science and society in China shows that science and technology, far from saving China, as the country's leaders promise, are producing unanticipated, often deeply disturbing effects"--
9781501747045 9781501747052
2019018070
Science--Social aspects--China.
Technology--Social aspects--China.
Science and state--China.
Technology and state--China.
Electronic Books.
Q175 / .C367 2020
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : governing through science : the anthropology of science and technology in contemporary China / Numbers and the assembling of a community mental health infrastructure in post-socialist China / Embracing psychological science for the good life? / Negotiating evidence and efficacy in experimental medicine / Divergent trust and dissonant truths in public health science / China's eco-dream and the making of invisibilities in rural-environmental research / The good scientist and the good multinational : managing the ethics of industry-funded science / The black soldier fly : an indigenous innovation for waste management in Guangzhou / Unmasking a gendered materialism : air filtration, cigarettes, and domestic discord in urban China / Susan Greenhalgh -- Zhiying Ma -- Li Zhang -- Priscilla Song -- Katherine Mason -- Elizabeth Lord -- Susan Greenhalgh -- Amy Zhang -- Matthew Kohrman.
"This study of the intimate connections between science and society in China shows that science and technology, far from saving China, as the country's leaders promise, are producing unanticipated, often deeply disturbing effects"--
9781501747045 9781501747052
2019018070
Science--Social aspects--China.
Technology--Social aspects--China.
Science and state--China.
Technology and state--China.
Electronic Books.
Q175 / .C367 2020